Dapper Dan 28 is out!

Photography Alvaro Beamud Cortes

For its 28th issue, DAPPER DAN embarks on a journey to The Invisible City—a fictitious metropolis without borders, tied together by shared beliefs, memories and chance. A tribute to the communities, friends and neighbourhoods we encounter within the fertile terrains of the magazine. Continue reading “Dapper Dan 28 is out!”

Dapper Dan 27 is out!

Photography Alvaro Beamud Cortes

There’s something unsettling about obsession.

It’s an energy that powers action from the depths of the deepest blue and drives us to create, interpret or worship without explanation.

When inspiration strikes, obsession drives us on.

This issue of Dapper Dan is an homage to sources of rapture and joy, to the people, places and objects that keep us enthralled.

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Dapper Dan 26 is out!

Photography by Angelina Bergenwall

Is this what “normal” looks like? This issue we’re looking at anger, loss, uncertainty and creative, connective opportunities that come through engaging with the instability of our experience.
Artist Thomas Houseago talks about how Nick Cave inspired him to return to art and how he sees Brad Pitt as his brother. Dr Nelly Ben Hayoun–Stépanian discusses manufacturing the impossible, her work constructing playful experiences that mix science and creativity while challenging the status quo. Canadian artist Terence Koh invites us to explore his new treehouse project in New York and researcher Alfie Bown deconstructs how technology is dictating our desires.

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Dapper Dan 23 is Out!

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In the absence of physical touch, the imagination flourishes. Spending time apart and away from each other, we crave connection and seek it in new forms.
Dapper Dan Magazine’s 23rd issue moves away from the real and the physical, and into the subconscious.

In essays on
Fashion as Cinema,
Your Wildest Dreams,
The Art of Solitary Pastimes
and
Small Albeit Grand Thefts,
we’re thinking about pathways to creativity, the power of desire, and the radical potential of space.

Through interviews with
writer and artist Panagiotis Chatzistefanou,
writer Caleb Azumah Nelson,
music producer Jim-E Stack,
restaurateurs Jeremy Chan and Iré Hassan-Odukale,
costume designer Sandy Powell,
artist Olivier de Sagazan,
and more
we explore passion and craft with intimacy and intrigue.

Through fashion imagery, portraiture, art and costume, the pages of our magazine expand the mind.
What you see is only the surface. The subliminal is sublime.

Dapper Dan 22 is Out!

Dapper Dan’s 22nd issue sees menswear and philosophy unfold during unprecedented times. We form ideas, sentences, objects, garments and images into our magazine.

Our writers uncover the inimitable ideas of GmbH designers Serhat Isik and Benjamin Alexander Huseby, groundbreaking digital designer Jon Emmony and critically acclaimed filmmaker Matt Wolf.

Through the pandemic’s preferred means of online communication, architect Jack Self talks to Lara Johnson-Wheeler and Filep Motwary calls artist Berlinde De Bruyckere at home.

In the literary sphere, writer Paul Mendez discusses his debut work, Rainbow Milk, and British-born, Cypriot poet Anthony Anaxagorou calls out oppression and othering.
Each reforms language into art on the page, questioning the structure of words.

Objects—Margiela’s Tabi brogues, Sacai jewels, shoes by Camper and Jil Sander shirts—are at rest, while the bright young things in modelling move, restless before our photographers’ lenses.

Rebecca Solnit wrote, “Inside the word ‘emergency’ is ‘emerge’; from an emergency new things come forth.” The work we’ve crafted, in the pages of Dapper Dan, questions the form of what came before, bringing the new to the fore.

MACHINE-A’s Stavros Karelis talks to Lara Johnson-Wheeler

Buying director and founder of MACHINE-A, Stavros Karelis, curates a collection of clothes in his store that is as unique to his eye as it is to the city it situates. originally from Crete, stavros is a firm fixture in London’s fashion scene and his influence on it is supportive and stirring.

The store, based on Brewer street, is dedicated to showcasing his selections from international luxury brands and up-and-coming British designers, as well as a handful of graduates. Fitting, therefore, that stavros is also a judge for nEWGEn, the British Fashion Council’s emerging talent scheme.

In 2014, in collaboration with SHOWstudio, the store began selling online. stavros takes umbrage with the terms “curator” and “mentor”, although they are terms that have become easily applicable to him and seem intrinsic to his role. despite having known and worked together for a number of years, when stavros and I met for a drink near the MACHINE-A store, we stumbled upon subject after subject we’d never touched upon, from the personal to the professional and back again. Continue reading “MACHINE-A’s Stavros Karelis talks to Lara Johnson-Wheeler”

Charlie Porter talks to Lara Johnson-Wheeler

Photography by Kasia Wozniak

Charlie Porter cut his teeth as an “arts with an s” reporter, at titles including The Daily Express, The Times and Esquire. In 2000, he became deputy fashion editor for The Guardian and following this, an associate editor for GQ and deputy editor for Fantastic Man. A quiet yet perceptible presence at fashion weeks, Charlie’s readers quickly lent him their ears as he documented the industry as menswear critic for the Financial Times. Until October 2018, that is, when—in a manner that may have seemed abrupt to some—he quit fashion.

Charlie has become known in the fashion industry as one of an elite “club” of critics that provide genuine criticism. He has, in the past, been banned from shows—an accolade awarded to those from whom brands take offence. taking an extensive coffee break during a day’s work writing and researching at the British Library in London, Charlie and I talked in depth about criticism; the ethics involved and the love of feeling something for fashion. Continue reading “Charlie Porter talks to Lara Johnson-Wheeler”

Dapper Dan 19 Is Out!

Dapper Dan 19 looks at how we—as artists, writers, thinkers—carve out time and space in a world that bombards us constantly, keeping us ever-notified. In the pages of our magazine, we build new rules. We champion those who move against this mechanism, embracing iconoclasm in an Instagram age. We question Raven Smith’s content and commentary, Samuel Ross’s garments and products, and Andrew Bolton’s curation and exhibitions. We showcase duo FAKA’s radical singularity and the structures in tailor Daniel Haworth’s craft. We shoot Celine SS19 and capture Zegna’s collection, placing garments alongside objects to reveal both the inanimate and the human.

Menswear and philosophy are mined. Ideas are distilled. Dapper Dan 19 explores the intimacies of alienation, a new individualism.

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